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The Riddle of the Plague Survivors focuses on those who walked away unaffected. Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease? How could anyone survive in the face of what is described as one of the most pathogenic bacterial agents known to humankind? This 60-minute documentary traces the work of American geneticist Steven O’Brien as he follows his hunch that genes are at the heart of this mystery.
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Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany at the northern base of the Alps, was another small village that managed to escape the Black Death. In 1633, the villagers expressed their gratitude by promising to present a Passion Play every 10 years depicting the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. That play is still being presented.
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How incredibly sad that Elizabeth didn't pass Delta 32 to any of her six children. I cannot, just cannot, imagine digging graves for my husband and six children. I think the grief of it would have killed me too.
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One of my great grandma's was born in Eyam in 1649 and survived the Bubonic Plague and died in 1704. She was only 16/17 when the plague hit Eyam. Her name was Martha Furness.
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My gosh…the woman buried 6 of her children and her husband in the span of a single week. I just can’t imagine her grief.
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I’m a direct descendant of the Ragge family from Eyam. We weren’t able to find the graves as we believe the headstones were used in building works. We lost 5 family members during the plague and I have the gene, that other descendants have from the village.
We have done our family tree which, via my Grandmother’s family, shows a direct lineage.
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What blows my mind more than anything is the fact that these people have been living in the same town for hundreds of years
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Drinking the bacon fat may very well have helped her, at least a little bit, in fighting off the plague. Malnourishment and dysentery were common ailments that came with being sick, but were nearly impossible to stave off in those times. People were too sick to keep anything down and they didn't have IVs to force the calories and hydration into them. Drinking that much high caloric fat may have very well given her the energy her body needed to help fight off the illness.
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Wow, I saw this on tv 20 years ago. Never thought I'd see it again and here it is.
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Scientists in video: A rare gene saved them!
People in comments: She drank bacon fat!
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I'm a paramedic worked all through covid. Never got sick throughout. Probably exposed over 1000 times. Someone right next to me on a cardiac arrest from covid ended up in icu. I think I had chills a few times. Interesting stuff
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I remember reading a book about Elizabeth Glaser. How she got HIV through a blood transfusion. She had 2 kids, but only one died. Her husband and son were ok, they later found out the father had this mutation but only the son presented it as well.
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Best documentary. Straight to the point , well research .creepy suspense music . Not much dramatic sound effect or music. And a good narrator !
Thsts how you make documentary!!!
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There was a theory that cat populations had an effect on the plague. Cats killed the animals that carried the fleas. That cats were being killed for various reasons in the middle ages; religious, their organs or meat, etc. But in the farming communities, they would have known that cats are an important part of keeping their winter feed from pests. Furth cats would have lived outdoors more often so that they could preform this vital role. Could the higher cat populations in the country side have played a role?
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The thing is, everyone who is alive and has british ancestry has to be the descendant of someone who survived the plage... Otherwise they wouldn't be around?
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Apparently they've discovered recently that the gene that protected them from the plague with an overactive immune system also gave the survivors another type of overactive immune response, allergies. So somewhere in the past one of my ancestors must have survived the plague because I have the worst allergies.
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I was getting a little bored of history.. then I watched this video. It BLEW my mind! So cool!
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When I was about 14 years old, I took part in a play called "The Roses of Eyam". It was about the plague striking that village. Now I am 59. Eyam was a well documented case of a village surviving the plague. I do not know whether it was because of this play, but since then I have been very interested in infectious diseases.
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A fascinating mystery. Imagine your family living in the same town for 400 years.
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I think it's worth noting that sometimes fleas seem to have a preference for biting certain people... My husband and I were renting a house infested with mice, and those mice brought hundreds and hundreds of fleas with them. We were constantly overrun over the course of four years. Yet while my husband got bitten many, many times, I only got bitten *once*. One time. It burned like hell. I had just assumed I was getting bitten without my knowledge, but it turns out... I wasn't being bitten at all.
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